2013 Milwaukee IndyFest

Andretti Autosport had the most victories heading into the Milwaukee race, with James Hinchcliffe and Ryan Hunter-Reay winning two^[2][3] and one race,^[4] respectively. The defending race winner was Hunter-Reay.^[5]

Marco Andretti of Andretti Autosport clinched the pole position with a speed of 170.515 mph (274.417 km/h).^[6] His teammate James Hinchcliffe started second, Will Power started third, Ryan Hunter-Reay and E. J. Viso started fourth and fifth, respectively. Sebastián Saavedra started a career-high sixth, with Tony Kanaan, Josef Newgarden, Simon Pagenaud and Tristan Vautier rounded out the top ten.^[7]

In the race, Takuma Sato dominated, leading a race-high 109 laps,^[8] until he drifted into turn 4 and nearly hit the wall; Sato then pitted under green,^[9] but Ana Beatriz's contact brought out the caution, bringing Sato down a lap,^[10] and he was eventually passed by Ryan Hunter-Reay on lap 198. Hunter-Reay led the remaining 53 laps^[8] and won by 4.809 seconds over Hélio Castroneves to claim his second straight victory at the track, becoming the first back-to-back race winner at Milwaukee since Tony Kanaan in 2006-07.^[11] The win was Andretti Autosport's 47th in the IndyCar Series, and fifth at Milwaukee.^[12] Will Power finished third, behind by 5.39 seconds,^[13] for his first podium of the season, followed by E. J. Viso, his best finish of the year, and Hunter-Reay's teammate James Hinchcliffe closed out the top five.^[11] Pole-sitter Marco Andretti had his car stall when leaving the pits on lap 97 and stop on the backstretch with an electrical problem, and finished 20th.^[14] Scott Dixon, Sato, Dario Franchitti, Justin Wilson, and Kanaan finished the top ten.^[8]

Pos	No.	Driver	Team	Engine	Laps	Time/Retired	Pit Stops	Grid	Laps Led	Points1
1	1	Ryan Hunter-Reay	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	1:51:15.2962	4	4	65	51
2	3	Hélio Castroneves	Team Penske	Chevrolet	250	+ 4.8059	4	17		40
3	12	Will Power	Team Penske	Chevrolet	250	+ 5.3920	4	3	4	36
4	5	E. J. Viso	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	+ 6.2511	4	5	10	33
5	27	James Hinchcliffe	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	250	+ 6.4632	4	2		30
6	9	Scott Dixon	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	250	+ 16.5292	4	11		28
7	14	Takuma Sato	A. J. Foyt Enterprises	Honda	250	+ 23.3828	4	15	109	29
8	10	Dario Franchitti	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	250	+ 23.8041	5	23		24
9	19	Justin Wilson	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	249	+ 1 lap	4	13	1	23
10	11	Tony Kanaan	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	249	+ 1 lap	4	7		20
11	67	Josef Newgarden	Sarah Fisher Hartman Racing	Honda	249	+ 1 lap	4	8		19
12	77	Simon Pagenaud	Schmidt Hamilton Motorsports	Honda	249	+ 1 lap	4	9		18
13	6	Sebastián Saavedra	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	248	+ 2 laps	5	6		17
14	20	Ed Carpenter	Ed Carpenter Racing	Chevrolet	248	+ 2 laps	4	20		16
15	4	Ryan Briscoe	Panther Racing	Chevrolet	248	+ 2 laps	4	18		15
16	15	Graham Rahal	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	247	+ 3 laps	6	24		14
17	83	Charlie Kimball	Chip Ganassi Racing	Honda	246	+ 4 laps	5	21		13
18	16	James Jakes	Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing	Honda	245	+ 5 laps	6	12		12
19	18	Ana Beatriz	Dale Coyne Racing	Honda	242	+ 8 laps	4	19		11
20	25	Marco Andretti	Andretti Autosport	Chevrolet	176	Mechanical	6	1	61	12
21	55	Tristan Vautier	Schmidt Peterson Motorsports	Honda	173	Mechanical	4	10		9
22	7	Sebastian Bourdais	Dragon Racing	Chevrolet	152	Mechanical	4	14		8
23	98	Alex Tagliani	Barracuda Racing	Honda	146	Mechanical	4	16		7
24	78	Simona de Silvestro	KV Racing Technology	Chevrolet	69	Contact	2	22		6

Notes

¹ Points include 1 point for leading at least 1 lap during a race, an additional 2 points for leading the most race laps, and 1 point for Pole Position.